Times like these make me once again wish we had a proper abstraction for communities so you can easily disengage from topics you don't want to see without disengaging from the whole platform. The effects on mental health are clear. This model is absolute shit. But nothing substantial ever changes here. Mastodon still feels exactly like when I first joined 5 years ago, and other microblogging servers only added emoji reactions and quote posts to the mix. It's not like I don't appreciate these features, but they haven't changed anything about the core formula of all this.